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From Soviet to Post-Soviet Ukraine, and Back

Note from LeftEast editors: This review is simultaneously published on Jacobin.com. Toward the Abyss is an important corrective to the predominantly ethnicity- and personality-centered analyses of Ukraine. Ishchenko advances a class analysis of both Putinism and Ukrainian society. Based on his sociological research, he points out that a class divide is more important in understanding the […]

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Making Sense of the Turkish Elections through a Marxist Lens: an Interview with Cihan Tuğal

LeftEast is grateful to Eylem Taylan and H. Deniz Sert who conducted this interview and to its subject, Cihan Tuğal for letting us translate the original Turkish text that they published at İlerihaber.org. The May 14 and 28 elections in Turkey resulted in the continuation of the Erdoğan regime even though almost half of the […]

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Putin’s Invasion: Imperialism after the epoch of Lenin and Wilson

Cihan Tuğal on the implications of US and Russian wars of aggression since the end of the Cold War, and their meaning for the rights of nations to self-determination.